Cold Weather Sayings and Quotes

While some prefer the high temperatures of a tropical beach locale, others seek refuge in more frigid affairs. If nothing gets you more excited than sweater weather, you’ll love the list of wise and humorous cold weather quotes below.

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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

John Steinbeck

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Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.

Edith Sitwell

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Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd have frozen to death.

Mark Twain

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In the cold dark days of the winter, dream about the flowers to get warmed up!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

Miguel de Unamuno

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Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.

Morgan Freeman

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This weather is almost colder than my heart.

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In cold weather a good rule is to light your fire first before doing anything else. It is always more sensible to keep yourself warm rather than trying to thaw yourself out later.

Mors Kochanski

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The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.

Dr. Seuss

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The cold cut like a many bladed knife.

Israel Zangwill

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If you are cold at night, let the promise of my love cover you like a warm blanket.

Matthew White

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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.

Bill Watterson

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It was so cold I almost got married.

Shelly Winters

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It is only when the cold season comes that we know the pine and cypress to be evergreens.

Chinese Proverbs

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In a very cold night, even houses want to have houses of their own to enter inside them and feel warm!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness.

Mark Twain

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Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.

Anne Bradstreet

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It was so cold today that I saw a dog chasing a cat, and the dog was walking.

Mickey Rivers

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It was so cold that the Statue of Liberty put the torch INSIDE her dress.

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Nothing burns like the cold.

George R.R. Martin

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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

Noam Chomsky

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One thing about cold weather: it brings out the statistician in everyone.

Paul Theroux

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Three feet of ice does not result from one day of cold weather.

Chinese Proverbs

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The cold never bothered me anyway.

Elsa

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Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity.

Hung Tzu-Ch'Eng

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Scarves, mittens, and hats are a great way to express your personality in the cold weather.

Brad Goreski

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If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.

Horace Traubel

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It is so cold out there, my head nearly fell off.

Mark Mckinney

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Who knows how long the cold weather will last

Joe Williams

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Dear soul, begin this wintry month with your God. Let the cold snow and piercing wind remind you He keeps His covenant with you day and night.

Jim Reimann

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Winter in the soul can be an uncomfortable season as well.

Jim Reimann

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He scatters the frost like ashes' over the once green meadows of our joy and 'hurls down his hail like pebbles', freezing the streams of our delight.

Psalm 147:16-17

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Winter is a season that sparkles with magic and transforms our ordinary world into a glittering kingdom

Abi Elphinstone

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The rain was turning rapidly into snow. A bit too rapidly.

Abi Elphinstone

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I wouldn't like to return to those harsh cold days of my childhood.

Sheila Brook

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The playground was an exciting place but it could be a litttle dangerous during icy weather or after snow had fallen.

Sheila Brook

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Winter had set in before the leaf had fallen from the last oaks; already there had been a fortnight or more of severe cold, with hardly any snow.

Mary Augusta Ward

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The mountain was covered with snow which looked bluish in color.Tiny silver stars that seemed to be nestled in the blue-colored snow sparkled in the cold night air.

Marsha V. Poulin

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The first cold shower / even the monkey seems to want / a little coat of straw

Matsuo Basho

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Winter brings colder temperatues and snow to many regions. Snow makes everything very quiet and alters the landscape.

Beth Eaglescliffe

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During blizzards everything about the railroad was melodramatic.

Sinclair Lewis

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Let's drink the liquid of amber so bright / Let's rink the liquid with foam snowy white / Let's drink the liquid that brings all good cheer / Oh, where is the drink like old-fashioned beer?

Nineteenth-century toast

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With hoary frost He strews the ground / His hail descends with dreadful sounds / His icy bands the rivers hold / And terrors arms his wintry cold...His steady counsels change the face / Of the declining year / He bids the sun cut short his race / And wintry days appear.

Psalm 147

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The rains of autumn have now fairly yielded to the frosts of winter: our long season of cold weather has set in..

Philip Henry Gosse

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And skies their wintry sterness wear.

Philip Henry Gosse

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Yet winter is not altogether cheerless; by searching we may yet find a few subjects worthy of investigation,and capable of affording amusement and instruction to the mind; nature is never barren of lessons of wisdom, to him who possesses a mind willing to receive them.

Philip Henry Gosse

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The wintry weather is becoming with us a somewhat serious matter. We have still, as we have had for a long time, a considerable depth of snow, covering everything and preventing all ground work.

Robert Hogg

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I have been wandering in the cold, wintry winds of this life, enduring with sorrow its frosts, not knowing where to turn, or whether to direct my footsteps to find shelter.

J.M.Usher

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It is now winter, dead winter. Desolation and silence reign in the fields. No singing of birds is heard, no humming of insects.The streams murmur no longer, they are locked up with frost

J.M.Usher

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Yes, the cold wintry winds, the snow and frosts, the cares and anxieties of this life, are all sent to life to teach us to loosen our grasp upon things in this world and to draw us near to him.

J.M.Usher

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No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Voltaire

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Cold is first of all experience, a sensation acquired and intensified by an absence of sensation, the benumbing of freezing itself anesthetizing.

Donald Anderson, Aritha van Herk

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In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

William Blake

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Advice is like the snow. The softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

Aristotle

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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

Victor Hugo

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Being soaked alone is cold. Being soaked with your best friend is an adventure.

Emily Wing Smith

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The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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